Playing the Piano for Pleasure
The Classic Guide to Improving Skills Through Practice and Discipline
Skyhorse · Print & ebook · July 1, 2011
Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure.
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- Who it’s for
- A cheerful guide to piano improvement, built around concrete routines and patient repetition.
- Themes
- Piano skill development, Practice and discipline
- Genres
- Piano & Keyboards, Techniques & Skills, Classical
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Skyhorse Publishing is proud to revive Playing Piano for Pleasure. With the wonderful writing one would expect from a longtime New Yorker reporter, Piano aficionado Charles Cooke, offers concrete routines for improving your piano performance. A pleasant and constant cheerleader, Cooke asks readers to practice every day, suggesting that they work through just that section time and again until it is perfect.
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In addition to his own thoughts, Cooke includes material from his interviews with master pianists, artists, and writers. The result is a book that should be cherished for years to come.
Practice, Reconsidered
A cheerful guide to piano improvement, built around concrete routines and patient repetition.
Come here for
- Concrete routines for improving piano performance
- Encouragement to repeat a section until it is perfect
Expect
- A steady, cheerful voice on daily practice
- Cooke’s reflections alongside interviews with pianists, artists, and writers
Where it sits
| Piano & Keyboards | 81% |
|---|---|
| Classical | 42% |
| Techniques & Skills | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Music Appreciation
- Piano & Keyboards
- Music Theory
- Music & Society
- Authors
- Charles Cooke
- Publisher
- Skyhorse
- Published
- July 1, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Piano skill development · Practice and discipline
- Reading lane
- Music Appreciation